Philip Lau‚ writer of the essay‚ “The Limitations of Wikipedia”‚ is successful in persuading his readers that the webpage Wikipedia should not be used for college level research. In his essay‚ Philip states that‚ “Wikipedia can be a beneficial starting point in gaining general information on a subject but users should be wary of incorrect information”. The essayist’s use of examples‚ facts and quotes are what makes his argument so convincing. The writer wrote this essay to warn fellow college
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Capital Asset Pricing Model Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Capital market theory extends portfolio theory and develops a model for pricing all risky assets. It is an equation that quantifies security risk and defines a risk/return relationship Capital asset pricing model (CAPM) will allow you to determine the required rate of return for any risky asset Implications of the CAPM: CAPM indicates what should be the expected or required rates of return on risky assets This helps to
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The Scope and Limitations of Environmental Taxes in a Developing Country Setting 1. Introduction This paper begins by briefly outlining the impact of development on the environment and the consequent need to mitigate further environmental damage. Economically‚ the use of environmental taxes serves as an incentive-based tax to curb behaviour that is damaging to the environment. The paper then provides a brief outline of environmental taxes. Looking specifically at ‘first tier’ emerging markets‚
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Technology to Overcome The Limitation of Sight and Hearing Introduction Devices to overcome Limitations of sight Microscope Binoculars Function: Binoculars are used for viewing far objects like buildings‚ birds‚ and much more. Other information related to the devices Telescope The earliest recorded working telescopes were the refracting telescopes that appeared in the Netherlands in 1608. Their development is credited to three individuals: Hans Lippershey‚ Zacharias Janssen and Jacob Metius. Binoculars
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wrongfully executed for the murder of his son. If the purpose of Voltaire’s writing‚ Treatise on Toleration‚ was to expand the minds of his audience toward multiple avenues of rational thought‚ why does Voltaire place limitations on the concept of toleration? Through an analysis of this text‚ Voltaire reveals the ramifications of unlimited
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introduction In this growing age of technology‚ we can’t deny that the youth are now familiar with the Internet. Most of the “generation Y” today frequently log in to their accounts in social networking sites such as Facebook‚ Tumblr‚ and even Twitter. They are also fond of watching videos‚ playing online games‚ and listening and downloading music. However‚ such people are unaware of what they do in their computers. They use the Internet in wrong means. Some use it to bully students‚ posting them
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MODELS OF HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE There are four basic models of exchange for health information. These models are the centralized‚ decentralized‚ hybrid model and the health record banking model. Each one of these models has its advantages and disadvantages in different areas such as privacy‚ security‚ interoperability among others. In the centralized model‚ the database is stored in a centralized file and accessed by inquiries. The advantages that we can have in this model is the fast access
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Michael admits he would be unfaithful to his marriage. He is honest about it‚ but callous. He did not even thought about fighting his desire for other women in respect to his wife‚ everything she has done for him‚ and their marriage as a whole. He already had opinions and desires outside of his marriage that could be consider hurtful enough to any wife to hear‚ and he did not even had the care to choose his words when telling Frances all of those things. When Frances asks him why he does hurt her
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‘‘WITH THE REFERENCE TO THE UK AND A COUNTRY OF YOUR CHOICE‚ DISCUSS THE LIMITATIONS OF ‘GDP PER CAPITA’ AS A BASIS FOR COMPARING LIVING STANDARDS BETWEEN COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME’’ • INTRODUCTION From the late ‘40s a lot of countries started to develop very quickly‚ despite the wars. Every country realised its strong points of growing economically‚ and this was their resources. Some countries have more land‚ some countries have more water‚ some have more oil and some have more gold. Knowing
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weapons. One of the approaches made by Nixon was when he visited Moscow‚ Russia‚ and signed seven agreements that include space exploration and arms control‚ the discussion of this last topic was made during a series of talks called: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (S.A.L.T). But
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